We’re meeting with my aunt tomorrow, as she’s offered to make cupcakes for us for the big day. FFIL has also offered to pay for a cake, and we didn’t want to be rude and say no, so we agreed to have both. How many tiers should we have? We’ll be having cupcakes as well, so two small tiers or one?

It apparently depends on what type of cake you have – we are having a traditional fruit cake and we didn’t need as much than if we had chosen a sponge cake. (We are having three tiers, but the bottom tier alone should feed 80 people)

@tiffanyscanlan: yes that would be two. Or you could do without cake cutting and just have an anniversery tier. Feed/smash cupcakes to each other. Dont know how you feel about that. You could have separate cake and cupcake stands, or do as pp suggested. Which is a great compromise. Whatever you choose im sure your guests will love it!